Gleyber Torres’ promotion to Triple-A — the baseball version of one heartbeat away from the big room — accentuates the growing potency of the Yankees farm system.

The team that for years was woeful at developing minor league talent, notably position players, now has its two best position prospects with Scranton/Wilkes-Barre in Torres and Clint Frazier. They were the prized positional pieces obtained last July, when the Yankees traded Aroldis Chapman and Andrew Miller.

They are joined by Dustin Fowler and Tyler Wade, who were Yankees picks in 2013, the same draft in which they took Aaron Judge.

Torres, Frazier, Fowler and Wade are at the point now at which they have the combination of performance, pedigree and proximity to be major league options. This, however, coincides with the Yankees having a positional group playing at a high level and/or under contractual control beyond 2017 – just Chris Carter and Matt Holliday are free agents after the season.

The most vulnerable veteran at present is Chase Headley, who after a stellar start has regressed on both sides of the ball. However, he is still owed $13 million for 2018, so the Yankees would have to decide at some point later this season if: 1) Wade or, more likely, Torres was ready to play third daily in the majors and 2) they are willing to bench, trade or eat what is left on Headley’s pact.

“If you have a number of guys performing at the minor league level and performing at the major league level simultaneously, you don’t complain,” Brian Cashman said. “You smile.”

Still, a dilemma is created about the right time to promote a prospect who has mastered Triple-A, especially at the expense of a veteran who is part of the daily fabric of the team. The Yankees essentially have not faced that problem in recent years.

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They traded Roberto Kelly after the 1992 season because they had Bernie Williams ready to play. They planned to move Tony Fernandez to second for 1996 to accommodate Derek Jeter, but Fernandez was injured and lost for the season. Joe Girardi slowly ceded playing time to Jorge Posada in the late 1990s. Chuck Knoblauch and Tony Womack were moved to the outfield to open second base for Alfonso Soriano and then Robinson Cano. Brian McCann was moved last offseason to make Gary Sanchez the unquestioned starting catcher.

But at no time in recent franchise history have so many high-level prospects been pushing for a call to The Show.

“We have been there before,” Cashman said. “If a guy is ready and you can find room, you do that. If you have something that is not working on the major league level, you rearrange. If not, you wait or trade.”

Age does work in the Yankees’ favor for patience. The average age in the International League is around 26 or 27. Fowler, Frazier and Wade are each 22, and Torres is 20. None is on the 40-man roster. That is huge. Because to come to the majors, you must be on the 40-man roster, and once a player is on the 40-man, he must pass through waivers if taken off. The Yankees have a talented 40-man group and don’t want to use a spot on players this good until they are ready to play regularly in the majors.

That is why, for example, the Yankees went with Ronald Torreyes and Pete Kozma to begin the year when Didi Gregorius was on the disabled list rather than put Wade on the 40-man to cover just a month of games.

But should the Yankees suffer a longer-term injury now in the infield or outfield, their top prospects have positioned themselves for promotion. Fowler is leading the International League in triples and has a .905 OPS. Frazier leads the IL in doubles, his team in homers and has drastically cut his strikeout rate. Wade is sixth in batting average and Torres – the MVP of the Arizona Fall League – “checked all the boxes” at Double-A, in Cashman’s words.

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For Fowler and Frazier, though, it probably would take injury to get a call. Judge, Jacoby Ellsbury, Brett Gardner and Aaron Hicks are all playing well – and each is controlled at least through next season.

Like at Double-A, Torres will play not just his natural shortstop, but second and third, as well, which Wade already has been doing – plus taking on the outfield. So they could become options sooner, especially if Headley is deemed vulnerable.

This also works to the Yankees’ favor because if they continue to need a starting pitcher at the trade deadline, they would have prospects performing well at high levels and at positions at which they are deep. The Cubs, for example, dealt Torres because they were covered in the middle infield. The Yankees envision Torres as their regular second or third baseman next season, so perhaps they protect him. But Fowler, Frazier and Wade could be enticing on the trade market.

“You essentially line up as many options as you can,” Cashman said. “This is what makes you happy [having depth], it makes a franchise stronger.”